Matthew, at 04:18 on Jun 23 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

LB>> To forge a message and make all the see-by and path lines
LB>> identical would be difficult to achieve.

MP>> Not really.  Just get a copy of another message from my 
MP>> system to his, and pull off all the appropriate lines.  No 
MP>> problems.

BG>> Whether it's possible or not is totally irrelevant, even if 
BG>> you're too thick to realise it.  The truth is that you 
BG>> specifically stated that it was YOUR design, when, in fact, 
BG>> it was somebody else's intellectual property.  And that, my 
BG>> lying little friend, is called plagiarism.

MP> I never, ever, stated that it was my own design, arsehole.  
MP> Had you been slightly more perceptive, you might have noticed 
MP> that the portion you quoted was not indented, while the 
MP> portion I wrote (instead of the portion that you quoted, 
MP> which was part of the file I posted) was indented a single 
MP> line.

This may come a surprise to you Matthew, but some message editors reformat
text to suit the recipient's screen dimensions(132x40).  If the line of
text doesn't have the quote characters at the start, it is formatted
exactly as all other lines of text without quote characters.

There was no noticable "indent" difference on my screen between
the opening lines (which I now know you definitely DID write), and the
"my own design" line (which you claim was a quote).

Instead of abusing people, why not tell them politely that it was copy
typed from a magazine article (or better yet, include that explanation in
the original message, you've seen those snip-snip comments?)

David
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